Collar-button and necktie-holder.



No. 634,93I. Patented Det. I7, |899..

H. WILLIS.

COLLAR BUTTON AND NEGKTIE HDLDEB.

(Application led. Nov. 4, 189B.) LNo Model.)

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lHARRY VILLIS, OF DES MOINES, IOVA.

COLLAR-BUTTON AND NECKTlE-HOLDER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,931, dated October 17, 1899.

Application iiled November 4, 1898, Serial No. 695,519. (No model.)

To LZ/f whom, it may concer/t:

Be it known that I, HARRY WILLIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Collar- Button and Necktie-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My object is toprovide improved means specially adapted to facilitate securing collars on shirts and maintaining neckties in proper position relative to a collar and collar-button and to prevent the annoyances incident to neckties becoming loose and slipping down.

and away from the collar-button at the front of the neck.

`My invention consists in the separable collar-button and necktie-holder hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a sectional view, and Fig. 2 a top view, showing the peculiar forni of the head of the button on the end of a tubular stem specially adapted for detachably connecting a necktie-holder therewith. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the detachable necktie-holder, showing the main portion made of wire. Fig. 4L is a perspective view showing a necktie in position relative to a collar and a necktie-holder connected with the collar-button, as required, preparatory to tying bows with the necktie. y

The letter ct designates a button that may vary in size and form, as desired, and I) is a tubular stem adapted to be passed through coinciding but-tonholes in the front of the fixed collar of a shirt and the overlying ends of a shirt-collar. The face of the head on the end of the stem is convex and has a transverse depression or groove. An aperture c in the center of the top or head coinciding with the open top of the tubular stem that is adapted to admit a portion of the necktie-holder and, as required, to detachably fasten the two separable parts together for practical use and to prevent the necktie-holder from rotating relative to the head and stem of the button.

The necktie-holder is made of a single piece of wire, as shown in Fig. 3, by bending one end of the longest straight portion d into a hook f, and the other end portion into a hook g to jointly serve as a loop or clasp through which a necktie can be extended, as shown in Fig. 4, before it is tied into a bow. A V- shaped spring h is fixed to the center of the loop and is adapted to be pressed through the aperture c in the head into the tubular stem b, so that the projection will press against the edges of the aperture in the head of the tubular stem with sufficient force toV retain it in place when it is inserted in the button. The friction between the two parts prevents longitudinal movement of the part 7i, and the transverse depression across the convex face of the head through which the central part of the neektie-holder extends prevents rotary motionof the necktie-holder relative to the stein and head of the collar-button, and this is an essential feature in the satisfactoryuse of the invention. The free end of the spring 7i is elbow-shaped, and thereby adapted to be engaged bv a ersons iin gers to facilitate con-` b D D the necktie securely retained in proper position. To detach the necktie-holder from the button, the free end portion of the V-shaped extension is pressed inward and then withdrawn from the tubular stem of the button through the aperture in the head of the button.

By forming a depression in the top of the button, as shown in the drawings, the introduction of the V-shaped branch h of the tieholder into the tubular stem of the button is greatly facilitated.

I claim as my inventionl. A separable collar-button and necktie-' holder comprising a collar-button having a tnbular stem provided with a headhaving a con- Vex face and a groove extending across said convex face and an'aperture coinciding with the end of the tubular stem, and a necktieholder consisting of an open loop having a V- shaped spring extending at right angles from the center of the loop and the free end of the roo ter of the straight part of the loop and having an elbow-shaped free-end portion extending at right angles from 4the spring arranged and combined as shown and described, for the purposes stated.

HARRY WILLIS.

Witnesses:

J As. BARELS, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

